Cardiologists in the U.K. note young investment bankers in their 20s and 30s are being admitted to the hospital more frequently with heart-related conditions, despite employers implementing measures to reduce workload and stress. One cardiologist told Business Insider he has seen a 10 percent increase in heart attacks among bankers under 30.

A hospital protocol incorporating high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) enabled a quicker rule-out of heart attack than a conventional troponin test, according to a research letter published online Aug. 6 in Circulation.

Researchers have developed an online tool to more accurately calculate which middle-aged individuals are at the highest risk of heart attack or stroke during the next 10 years.

Siemens Healthineers received FDA approval of its High-Sensitivity Troponin I assays (TnIH)1 for the Atellica IM and ADVIA Centaur XP/XPT in vitro diagnostic analyzers. The new troponin assays will allow physicians to correctly diagnose patients for acute myocardial infarction (MI).

Depressive patients who took escitalopram after acute coronary syndrome (ACS)-related events had lower reoccurrences of major adverse cardiac events after eight years of follow-up, a group of Korean researchers reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Australian women with the deadliest type of heart attack, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), are less likely to receive invasive treatment, revascularization or preventive medication at discharge, researchers reported in the Medical Journal of Australia.

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during pregnancy increased by 25 percent over a 12-year period, researchers reported in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Marijuana use before an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) lowers the odds of in-hospital mortality by 21 percent, according to multicenter analysis of more than 1.2 million patients published in PLOS One.